Why Tears of the Kingdom Speedruns are FINALLY getting good!

[@CloudNone]

great musical taste, happy to help

[@Limcube]

Thanks for the Carry

[@matthewbenedict5923]

“drop another bow, equip another bow, unpause-pause, drop another bow, and now I have two bows stuck to my feet.” bars.

[@aarosen42]

25:57

[@FuegoDeLoop]

Fuck i thought it was menu overloading

[@imt3a]

Hey Limcube, I started watching your videos before Tears of the Kingdom released and I love watching your videos. It was fun to watch your theories and the slow grind of botw 100 percent until totk released. Keep up the good work and quality videos. Excited to see where the speed run is currently at!

[@Limcube]

Welcome back, I have some cool plans for the game finally so glad youre still here

[@gunnarollaisawesome]

as a music nerd i love that you always use music for your metronomes it's so cool

[@zarteen]

And genuinely impressive while keeping all the speedrunning tech straight. I have trouble keeping the beat when I'm just looking at the notes in FL or something.

[@thehappyavocado710]

does anyone know what the song used as the metronome is? it kinda slaps honestly

[@pk_ggs]

@@thehappyavocado710 30:35

[@thehappyavocado710]

@@pk_ggs im not sure how i didnt hear that when watching lol thank you tho

[@OnlyTwoShoes]

I love how EDM is now a speedrun strat

[@armasxd]

Step 1: Intro Step 2: Wingge Step 3: Suavemente

[@ToyKeeper]

It has been fascinating to see the strategies evolve from release day until now. It has gradually gone from "just playing the game fast" to "amazingly clever uses of game mechanics" to "non-stop glitch showcase".

[@juliette1280]

I really want someone to make a comprehensive history of TOTK speedruns, it’s so fascinating

[@bingonight1504]

plane crashing into the construct in front of the temple of time is so funny. What an intricate and fascinating run this game is

[@tabbitee]

Yeah, watching P5 break out a Rubik's Cube during the Ganon cutscene really is something else lol

[@rtyuik7]

ZFG has done runs with a MarioKart8 race during the intro cutscene lol

[@shadow7x551]

Why speed running is getting interesting in Tears of the kingdom: *Starts arrow smuggling to Margarita intensely*

[@MafiaCow01]

That music section was so satisfying to watch

[@juny_pr]

p5 gets a wr so casually and chill he makes it look so easy 😭

[@kF_116]

i don't understand much about how speedruns are made but i come for moments like 11:10 and enjoy the feeling of having someone high af explaining to you how birds function

[@Rin_404]

lmfao

[@speedrat6507]

seeing the wing flip for the first time absolutely blew my mind. crazy that you learned all this with stick drift lol

[@bavarianplaguedoctor]

Good to see another video from one of my favourite speedruners. Even if I don’t care about TotK speedruning

[@jceggbert5]

Still not sure you showed the same clip of the 3min intro cutscene twice

[@Vanished584]

Wow this is really cool to watch, Limcube. Ive always wondered how people speedrun Totk and how it 'works' becuase its never that simple by just watching. From personal experience (Speedrunning Borderlands: TPS) there is always a lot more action going on inside your mind then there is on-screen. I really hope you make more videos focusing around totk speedrunning, becuase I really feel like the potential is there. It'd also be fun to watch them.

[@jessgulwell1274]

great video! ive been loving your playthrough of Sekiro on the vods channel so this was a very welcome surprise!! (im on the final episode now i cant wait to see the final boss)

[@nikifallen93]

So happy to see you back making content on TotK. Another fantastic video! I can’t wait for the new stuff you have in store.

[@mobes8876]

An interesting thing about the Daruk amiibo is that it acts differently on GSI than after GSI. I was doing an amiibo only run and was confused why my Daruk amiibo wasn't dropping gemstones. Apparently if you use the Daruk amiibo on GSI before it is completed, they will have the chance to drop gemstones as a material. After GSI, the amiibo doesn't do that anymore.

[@GKoopa]

In botw, all amiibo have several drop tables that they use depending on your game progress. I imagine this game does the same thing and beating the great sky island is the first trigger for different drops.

[@CaelenSawyers]

"This will be the first time you see the arrow smuggle flight movement. Watch this." *turns to pay more attention to 2nd monitor* *ad plays*

[@dearthofdoohickeys4703]

Masahiro Sakurai said in his recent video about game development that letting players skip cutscenes is VERY important. I immediately thought of ToTK. That 4 minute opening is brutal on speed-runners.

[@davii_ms]

Finaly new video 🙌🏻 TotK speedruns are really getting interesting! Cant wait to see what the community will do in +3 or +5 years from now!

[@sometimeidrawthings]

I love how cheeky he is with his music playing doing the trick because he knows how cool it looks

[@Zeldon567]

0:19 This lives in my head rent free lol. Got a good chuckle out of me when a clip of that video was used.

[@pk_ggs]

EDIT: LOL never mind thank you, ( 30:35 ) Lim, what is the song playing at 29:45 ? awesome video by the way! can't wait to see how the run continues to be optimized as time goes on!!

[@storewideboss6910]

I’m glad TOTK is getting some nice developments. I’d love to try this run at some point in the future. Thanks for the explanation video, useful as always!

[@ModdedGearV]

Let me get the pop-corn for this one, happy to see you back on here !

[@ANZEMusic]

29:45 I love this so much

[@lexalot8337]

As an indie game dev, I have to say the way nintendo constantly interrupts the player with zelda's nerd rambles is understandable from a slowing down the pace to build tension perspective, but pretty baffling otherwise I generally use the rule of thumb "if the player didn't interact with anything, don't interrupt them", and I think it could have been much better here if instead of forcing the player into a bunch of tiny cutscenes, zelda just inspected stuff herself while occasionally inviting link to come look at what she's looking at, or instead just let him run ahead and have her run after him I really think this is representative of a "you'll have only the curated experience we want you to" attitude at nintendo which can work at times (wind temple ascension), but can also fall miserably flat like it did with the intro section

[@Rbaronii]

Great video. Thanks for uploading!

[@Limcube]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mattemonx4315]

The music for the bow movement is soooo sick 🎉 30:28

[@Jbotw23]

Player 5 actually started doing a different intro clip yesterday

[@thermophile1695]

A week after launch day, my guess was that the record would stabilize at around 45 minutes. Good to see I wasn't that far off.

[@beatsado6529]

I wonder, has there been any big breakthroughs or big things happening with All shrines? I'd love to see a commentated speedrun of that, because I loved yout BOTW all shrines

[@Pearl7sp]

under 14 minutes is something i never thought we could get to at the beginning of this games life. holy shit

[@joshuabushman7]

I keep getting reminded that at the beginning of the game link has a complete two rows of hearts, and it drives me crazy knowing that we won’t get dlc

[@yaboihere494]

Don't let it bother you too much, because at the beginning of the game Link has 30 hearts (2 rows of 15). The maximum possible to achieve is 40 hearts (2 rows of 20).

[@Kcaedenn]

lowk it's kind of cool to watch a vid and see the amount of likes and views keep updating

[@WjKoenHD]

Lim saying unpause pause is my favorite thing

[@lookitsnicholas]

glad to have you back :)

[@xSasuke16x]

Finally I understand whats happening in the speedruns Pog

[@highyoda]

These videos are so awesome as a casual player who enjoys watching speed runs but can’t keep up with the meta

[@GrapplingwithPhysics]

Great video, thanks for all of the sharp explanations!

[@clutchhouse]

that metronome part was fire

[@ShadowSkyX]

There's something really comedic about link throwing stuff near the construct way below him and have it yelling way up at him like "don't think i don't know you did that! Take this and play somewhere else!"

[@emilyjanet455]

I'm so excited to see you back on KZbin!!

[@paradiseplaysgames6353]

Perfect time of making, I reset my completed game to restart, I had all 120 light roots and killed "the mummy" as well as had all sages, I had tons more caves to explore and shrines to find, but I had the robot and bird sages upgraded, and I did a dupe glitch for infinite diamonds at the robots depths entrance, it probably doesn't work anymore though, but I also duped weapons with a memory glitch, but the reason I restarted is all the glitches I used to win, I want to complete it the actual way

[@paradiseplaysgames6353]

Also I did this yesterday as of commenting this

[@kira-m1e2o]

Why did you restart? You can create a new account with a new Nintendo profile.

[@Brittanysplittany]

I love your accent! Southern American here. Apologies if you aren’t German, but one of my favorite teachers ever was German and you remind me of him!

[@Wooa1200]

My guess for why the gannon fight trigger is gone on the army but not the bosses is probably because if you do everything in the game then the way opens right after the army fight so they probably just put the trigger after the army to save time.

[@fast-yi9js]

Im a little saddned that any% ended up being the most popular category. This game would be such a blast to run and watch on Any% Inbounds only

[@mordecai5225]

TOTK seems to have borrowed elements from so many game genres and now the speed run also makes it part rhythm game

[@TapuFlame]

Great video as always Lim! I can't wait to watch you stream some more totk! also at 10:52 when you said "taboo" all I thought about was "Tapu" from my name for like 30 seconds, anyways great video, keep up the great work!

[@SuishiYT]

Im surprised shock arrow smuggle isnt set up in the bottomless cave so you have the like-like as a backup for AS if you miss the shock

[@SuishiYT]

ok nvm i think i get it. thats an interesting setup 🤔

[@Limcube]

also allows to use the downtime of the door opening efficently

[@SuishiYT]

@@Limcube oh yeah, thats a really good point! didnt think of that

[@locker_flockig9494]

Nice. Glad to see a new video. Hope you are well

[@nornyhendy1155]

Being on the newest patch I just hope that speedrunning is still good

[@jaymarshbank3862]

In One piece they call jumping off the air like that Geppo.

[@Mittzys]

14:37 the music lines up with the technique

[@jmwra]

You really provide a good service for our pleasure Limcube

[@fastbudgie]

As someone who can read Russian, but is more fluent in English, watching TotK speedruns is pretty interesting. Like "so that's what Colgera or the Depths are called in the Russian translation."

[@bloody_bubblegum]

hyrule engineering discord members ears all perking up at the mention of zuggling

[@GlitchHaven14]

Hey limcube. I’ve been watching since 5k subs. I love your vids. Also 13th comment. I love loz and totk speedruns. Keep up the great videos.

[@ricknewton459]

Im quite glad im not watching bomb movements from BOTW,( forgot the name) but the new potential of glitches/ movements look good.

[@iwersonsch5131]

It would be _possible_ to load a GSI file after selecting "Not yet" for the Ganon cutscene. Or to use the mod that skips the cutscene. Just hasn't been lobbied for because runners used to think they could skip all of intro without losing time

[@Limcube]

Hopefully one day

[@iwersonsch5131]

@@Limcube i mean, it's been brought up on Discord a few times and i don't think you ever said anything, it died down each time cause only like 3 people talked

[@underdogoverland]

Hope we find some great speedrun tricks in 2024!

[@Timberwolfee]

What a honor! I watched your videos when I was learning BotW! 😍

[@AntonZero]

#1 Pro Speed Running Strat: house beats

[@toasture9119]

29:45 top 5 sickest moments in gaming

[@brambleblaster]

He’s back!! 🥰 I don’t usually watch streams so KZbin is my only way of consuming your content, and I really really love your stuff. Thanks for every video you make, man. You’re awesome.

[@jackparnham2267]

Hey limcube I ❤ your videos botw speedruns is my favorite and totk speedruns as well keep up the good work

[@Werdna12345]

Thanks for another upload 😊

[@nuagor]

You come to this cutscene: traigo mi suave...

[@patheticdawg]

Best cutscene in Zelda 0:20

[@10k-Noodles]

I’ve only ever seen Player5 skip the intro up to Ganondork.

[@entenknorpel344]

man you baited me with that 10min thumbnail haha

[@zachster2016]

I completely forgot that its called the purah pad in this game, i was wondering why you were saying pura pet or pura pit lol

[@cj1535]

i thought player 5 said the community agreed to have a save at the broken master sword room with auto time given to the run so they dont have to do 3 minutes unskippable

[@Limcube]

not since we found the time save in the intro sequence

[@egg_64.]

nah it wont be good untill 1.2.1 has better gliches... great vid glad your back to uploading

[@Mlgbro02]

New limcube vid hype letsgoooooooooooooooooooooo

[@Intent-Game]

Someone needs to make a mod that is just terminal montage clips in totk

[@mikedickinson9730]

I turned off my updates, and recently, I wasn’t even allowed to start the software without an update. There was no way for me to bypass the update. Took away all of my duping.

[@jadonlimoges1830]

You can play it on old versions if you play on airplane mode iirc

[@Capybara_Vidz]

Terminal montage is so funny😂

[@Le_Magpie]

Great video! whats the song that plays at the very start of the video?

[@Limcube]

Water Temple 3 from Tears of the Kingdom

[@Ellheath15]

He’s back!

[@davii_ms]

There is no way CloudNone is helping in Totk Speedruns, what a timeline we live in °‐°

[@10k-Noodles]

New tricks? Let’s go! Unfortunately, I didn’t turn off auto updates so I am kinda screwed. No clue how to revert. Would uninstalling the game and reinstalling it with updates turned off work or will it not allow me to start the game?

[@RipVanFish09]

The only way to go back would be to factory reset your switch, or get another one. Edit: after re-reading, I am dumb. It is not possible to revert an eshop copy of totk. The thing I said is for a cartridge.

[@Tot_sr]

so unfortunate and hilarious at the same time that the day b4 this dropped that ferrus, aergyl, lovelysirius, and i developed new intro clips and time saves with mozzdor jumps getting intro times to 1:34 at best so far and 1:40s are free

[@Limcube]

I heard about that, great work, thankfully it doesnt change the overall Idea of current runs too much and thankfully things are still getting faster and cleaner constantly

[@Tot_sr]

@Limcube I really appreciate and that's absolutely true. It's amazing how after months of almost no optimizations, the game has seen so much new movement tech being found. Not even gonna start on the insanity that is shock arrow smuggle. Can't wait to see you in the top 10 limcube GL.

[@cristycrenshaw9109]

just wanna say that I think with your wrist issues with some of the tricks, tricks which have apparently been abandoned thankfully, it isn't surprising at all that the run didn't click with you. Hopefully the new tricks don't cause you injury and you can enjoy the game more.

[@serve1624]

Have you consider simulcast on twitch and KZbin?

[@Limcube]

I will look into it again

[@CristianGarcia]

They've always been good

[@the_splits2360]

Can't believe the bias

[@daniebello]

6:40 “ich werde dich erklären, warum” (meistens) dich = to you i will explain to you, why oder i will explain why, to you

[@secondbest3443]

Hey dude what’s the game version I didn’t see it in the video (yet)

[@chipswoon4554]

1.0.0

[@darkwing272]

Can I get a full song lost of music used in the intro of this video? Specifically at 1:39

[@loumon1173]

He uploaded, he uploaded!

[@gopito5102]

love your vids

[@iLlamapie]

29:40 so satisfying

[@nintendope1]

FYI I hope you didn't factory reset your Switch. You can just delete the update data for that particular game..

[@fatcat943]

Great video but im not here to talk about that what im here to talk about is the ad i got before the video. Tyson chicken nuggets. I HATE TYSON CHICKEN NUGGETS. They are the wurst chicken nuggets you can buy. They love to put hard stuff in them so mid bight you have to spit stuff out. The breading is miserable it falls out and tastes horrible. Never buy tyson chicken nuggets ever. No hate to video tho loved it

[@t0nytch0pp3r]

LMAO what in the world, I love how vocal you are about your hate for Tyson Chicken Nuggets 😂😂

[@fatcat943]

They suck absolutely wurst brand of chicken nuggets to buy. I wanna know who designed those nuggets and thought they were good enouph to sell to the public

[@divinedeathlord6990]

just found the channel

[@egg_64.]

could you do one of these for the lastest version

[@firecracker1185]

What country are you fromm ? You sound so familiar

[@lololololololol699]

these runs are crazy! last time i watched totk speedruns they took around 40 minutes. now i came back and theres a 14 minutes run